Tata Power, India’s integrated private power utility, and SN Power, Norway’s international renewable energy company, recently signed an exclusive partnership agreement to develop joint hydropower projects in India and Nepal. This is the first time that Tata Power has entered into an exclusive partnership with another hydropower company, stated a press statement issued by Tata Power. The [...]
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ADB to withdraw from West Seti, Watch group set up
Posted on 27 November 2009 by editor
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is likely to withdraw its investment from West Seti Hydro (WSH) project to which the bank had earlier agreed for 15 percent investment share. Nagarik daily quoted sources at the energy ministry to have said that the ADB is reluctant to invest in WSH saying the project is not commercially attractive. [...]
Chinaese support for hydro-power and consulate building
Posted on 27 November 2009 by editor
The visiting Chinese delegation has pledged support to Nepal on various fronts including food assistance, construction of a hydro project and Nepal’s consulate building in Lhasa, reports say. In a meeting with deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister Sujata Koirala, Wednesday, the Chinese delegation led by the executive deputy chairperson of Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Hao [...]
NT not to invest in Upper Tamakoshi unless it gets share
Posted on 26 October 2009 by editor
Nepal Telecom (NT) has backtracked from its earlier decision to invest Rs 6 billion in loan for the construction of Upper Tamakoshi hydro-electric project, Nagarik daily reported. NTC backtracked from its decision after Minister for Information and Communications Shankar Pokhrel directed it not to invest in the project unless equity share worth the amount is given [...]
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ADB promises $25.6m for flood-hit areas
Posted on 22 April 2009 by editor
Kathmandu, 22 April: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has promised to provide a grant assistance of $25.6 million to help restore economic activity in parts of Nepal devastated by last year’s monsoon floods. More than 300,000 people living in the eastern and far western region of the country were seriously affected by the August floods, and [...]
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Government starts importing electricity
Posted on 26 February 2009 by editor
Nepal has started importing 35 megawatts of electricity from India through the Duhabi-Kataiya transmission line from Wednesday. The floods in Koshi river last year line had disrupted the line. Before the line was destroyed, Nepal had been importing 60 MW from India. According to Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the import of power will not contribute to minimize [...]
Load-shedding to be reduced by half ’soon’
Posted on 08 February 2009 by editor
Amidst media reports that the 12-14 hours of daily power outage that the country is currently facing might further increase, a top government official has said that it will instead be reduced by half from February 26. Similarly, the government official also assured that the pro-longed load-shedding hours will be done away with for good in the next 5 years time. Briefing the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Sunday morning, Secretary at the Ministry for Water Resources (MoWR) Shankar Koirala informed that the transmission line within Nepal and that linking to India (for importing electricity from India) which had been destroyed during last year's flood will be repaired by February 19, leading to a significant reduction in the daily power cuts or load-shedding
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Guest Column
Mahakali Treaty outcome of economic nationalism
By Hari Bansh Jha
It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]
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Interview
No alternative to power purchase from India : Mahat
The meeting of the Joint Commission on Water Resources is scheduled for the first week of November and is to be followed soon after by ministerial-level talks that will take up all issues relating to the setting up of the Pancheshwar Development Authority and reach a conclusion. We have informally agreed to locate PDA headquarters in Nepal
Posted in Interview on 08-10-2009 Comments (0)
Opinoin Tank
Pain of Losing West Seti
By Sudheer Raj Sharma Dhakal
The well-versed 750 MW West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) is once again capturing major energy headlines in both the print and electronic media of Nepal. Looked as a porthole for the development of the Far Western Development Region (FWDR) that has received the least development privilege, this project has been lingering for more than a [...]
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